Branding cattle and sheep and pigs suffer this imposition

269 the branding iron
a blow torch and volunteers
who are standing by lying down
for animals
and tears
in a public street in march
humans are going to share
a brand new branding ceremony
to make us all aware
animals are branded
the terror of it all
and no one blinks their eyelids
despire it being cruel
The Dairy farmers do it
the milk of human kindness
flowing off their ghastly tongues
temporsry blindness
occupies thei thinking
it does appear to me
making dosh by treating animal
earthlings violently
The animals people have no laws
to stop these goings on
an animals on farms relinquishes
all rights they’re all gone
branding,cutting molars, tail docking
and the rest
is all done without anaesthetics
oh yes I do not jest
its agony personified
and carried out by
the most ignorant of people
left under the sky
and because the don’t appreciate
that animals feel pain
they torture them unnecessarily
hurting them again
many masochistic many violent bods
branding blistering festering
the nastiest of sods
and maybe these should be the victims
of the new campaign
branding humans beings
with the 269 refrain
instead of avid vegans
who are prepared to say
we will suffer as best we can
what the animals have each day
and the carnivores pretend
they do not know about, nor care
they eat meat cos they love it
the rest they all ignore
the pain, the sores, the agony
the sickness and the rest
most carnivores don’t care a fcuk
as long as the meat is blessed
and its now blessed by some rabbi
or some moslim priest
as they chop through the carotid
and watch it bleed out, least
of all
the horrid shaking
as its thrust upon a chain and
carted off to be sliced up
its sad life so in vain